Just leaving a comment for the algorithm. And saying thank you for this gem of an essay about old school eq gaming. I myself played in 1999 and recently discovered Project 1999 and am enjoying it a lot 😊
"...what it means to be authentic to the self ... rather than be mired in self-made expectations and the expectations of others ... What I concluded was that a truly authentic self can't be achieved for more than a moment at a time before what that is shifts into something new..." If that line isn't fire then you can call me Permafrost because that's a cool as hell reflection.
Great video. The music was good too but was a bit too loud compared to the voiceover at times and it was hard to hear. Good to see people doing EQ videos in 2023.
The random acts of kindness really stuck out to me because that happens in my shitty video game obsession, Warframe, too. I'm glad that these people exist. Excellent video.
The Everquest player kindness was/is absolutely a thing! One of the last memories I have of my original playthrough was some random player handing my ranger a full set of thorny vine armor for nothing.
We play because we loved the environment of the classic game. Everyone was like that back then, having high levels in newbie zones to buff/heal/give out little “trash” items that are massive upgrades for them… It was awesome, and a lot of those players have come back to experience that atmosphere again.
I still have this all the time on P99 and Project Quarm. I played WoW for years and going back to playing classic EQ has been awesome the community has been refreshing compared to playing modern MMO's where it feels like players are much more selfish.
I told a long time friend that I wanted to get into EQ because I missed the train by a few years but played other older MMOs like DAoC. His response was that I probably wouldn't have fun. That response and this video really makes me want to give it a try.
It's ok, I turn on Asheron's Call private servers every few months just to soak in the atmosphere, the bad sfx, the 5 polygon models, the low res textures, and I love it. I'll be loving it til the day I die.
Lots of the peculiarities of this game echo greatly in Eve Online. It was released in 2003, so despite being a space game, it has very MUD like characteristics... The developers, CCP Games, only overhauled the UI as recently as 2016, and it took until 2019 to put in any semblance of anything telling you to actually play the game. I guess the time had come that CCP had to think about new player retention, these new players not having been raised in the wild west of MUDs and complex role playing games, and were instead used to being spoonfed fun gameplay loops. Somehow it endured. The Tranquility server cluster sees in excess of 10k daily, and over 20k on weekends and such. Great video, and I look forward to more.
@@daveydavedave If this video had been made about Project Quarm, the video would have already been copyrighted, and the player who made the video banned in-game.
Well stated my soul friend. By the way, look at Monsters and Memories... made by an old school EQ developer and maybe, just maybe will have some of that magic again...
p99 is a love and hate relationship for sure. Some of us want it to be everquest like it was back then, for the most part its ppl satisfying their elitist behaviour, steam rolling ppl and gatekeeping content from the others. And I wont start with the "monetary contribution" certain ppl give the GM which let them have a pass on using third party programs. P99 is probably the closest we will ever have to the true experience, but it is heavily corrupted also. Its like a very good and delicious cake, with some moldy spots here and there. There is still some good part, but you still biting into something with mold on it
For all those elitists trying to live out their power fantasy, I’ve never played a game with so many people willing to lend a hand to a random person I’ve never met. The number of items, buffs, ports, and the like I’ve received without ever being asked for a tip or payment is vastly beyond any other game I’ve played
What a great presentation with clever and gifted writing. Great job relating how a bunch of triangles translates into real life events/experience. Does the game emulate real life experience, or do we bring the human condition to the game and just play ourselves on some level, vicariously through a character...or both? This playground of triangles certainly reveals the most noble to the darkest attributes one can possess. Does the distance between sheer fantasy and reality amplify any of these possible selves? I include the question because of the mention of "authenticity" near the end, which I find very relevant to the EQ experience. Thanks for the video. Full marks!
Great video, immediate sub from me. It did bother me that you mentioned Michael Jackson and show a picture of Prince. I played the original eq and remember when they added "Gems", a tetris like mini game that you could play while having downtime. That was the first song that things in eq might not be an optimal game
Did you try Evercraft yet? Its gonna be the next hit. Ive played every MMO you can imagine since Everquest. Evercraft has huge potential given they dont eff it up lol.
This video should be called, "When you have an above average vocabulary but you DRONE ON non stop for 36 plus minutes".....I made it to 6 minutes before I couldn't stand the droning and yes, I understood all the words....
EverQuest is the first, worst mmorpg that every other game aside from a few blindly copied and didn’t try and make anything original. It literally fucked rpgs for the last 30 years
"This game really sucks.....I love it."
That about sums up classic EQ.
Nostalgia scowls at you, ready to attack....
0:46 That's Prince, not Michael Jackson, was this intentional? 😅 Either way, it gave me a good laugh, I'm subscribed now.
this video’s hilarious and fantastically made, can’t believe it’s the first on your channel! can’t wait for more
Just leaving a comment for the algorithm.
And saying thank you for this gem of an essay about old school eq gaming. I myself played in 1999 and recently discovered Project 1999 and am enjoying it a lot 😊
severely underrated, that ending was beautiful :')
This was awesome! Thanks for the time you put into it )
The most dangerous thing to my characters back then was the boats. Couldnt help but stand and jump along the edge.
Random duration invis was always my favorite. Why did it always seem to fade right in front of the town guards? Lol.
Hey there Cen from Project 1999, enjoyed the video :) Rock on
"...what it means to be authentic to the self ... rather than be mired in self-made expectations and the expectations of others ... What I concluded was that a truly authentic self can't be achieved for more than a moment at a time before what that is shifts into something new..."
If that line isn't fire then you can call me Permafrost because that's a cool as hell reflection.
Great video. The music was good too but was a bit too loud compared to the voiceover at times and it was hard to hear. Good to see people doing EQ videos in 2023.
The random acts of kindness really stuck out to me because that happens in my shitty video game obsession, Warframe, too. I'm glad that these people exist. Excellent video.
This is amazing, thank you!
Watched again. Really well done. I live in Tucson too.
This was an excellent video -- thank you
Wow! Great poem video story!
I both love and hate P99 EQ but always find myself going back to it.
The best online soap opera in some dark corner of the internet
Just enjoyed a 4th of July weekend of 50% extra loot, exp and faction. Great game great community
this is the best "listen while i work" video ive found in a long time. subbed, amazing. love it.
The Everquest player kindness was/is absolutely a thing! One of the last memories I have of my original playthrough was some random player handing my ranger a full set of thorny vine armor for nothing.
We play because we loved the environment of the classic game. Everyone was like that back then, having high levels in newbie zones to buff/heal/give out little “trash” items that are massive upgrades for them…
It was awesome, and a lot of those players have come back to experience that atmosphere again.
I still have this all the time on P99 and Project Quarm. I played WoW for years and going back to playing classic EQ has been awesome the community has been refreshing compared to playing modern MMO's where it feels like players are much more selfish.
lmao this is gold. “and a t shirt, you need that t shirt buddy”.. i’m lmao on this video
p99 is the most f*cked up game i've ever played
btw this essay is amazing great job
This is very well done. Looking forward to more!
"Mimetown" is an amazing name for a monk
The Duress art was a nice touch for talking about sense heading 😆
Strong echoes of Tim Rogers, but he’s one of the greats of this format, so I’m not complaining. Video is well received sir.
this is the greatest compliment I have received in my short pointless life thank you
damn bro you got a 60 druid? dedication my friend.
If you're wondering whether you should watch this video. You should.
Thank you
Yeah..... just watched and now I want to log on. Such a good game.
If Tim Rogers made a video about Everquest. I'm here for it.
amazing
I played this game with my step dad I made a human monk he farmed out silk armor, he played a ranger before they were good lol
you have a way with words. what is a way with words. who is a way with words. it is a way with words.
A beautiful essay. DFW esque
Easily one of the best EQ videos on youtube.
I told a long time friend that I wanted to get into EQ because I missed the train by a few years but played other older MMOs like DAoC. His response was that I probably wouldn't have fun. That response and this video really makes me want to give it a try.
Love your video so great! I too am hooked on P99 Blue
Just loaded up green 2 days ago.. its awesomw
I really hope Everquest 3 is exactly like p99 but with modern graphics and no loading screens. That’s all I want.
Me also.. hoping I can play like I was 22 again.. seems alot like me coming back just for this reason ..practice for eq3.. lol
Dude, excellent! Love the whole thing. I love any homage to our beautiful p99 world
3 important life lessons in this video:
-Go touch grass.
-Always be polite to a Druid or Wizard.
-God shows up once a week in a 16-hour window.
lol hey Bootea
amazing Video❤❤❤
It's ok, I turn on Asheron's Call private servers every few months just to soak in the atmosphere, the bad sfx, the 5 polygon models, the low res textures, and I love it. I'll be loving it til the day I die.
I still play it to this day.
Very well written, albeit a little difficult to follow at times. Excellently done video!
Absolutely love the Key 'n' Peele names.
Finally someone noticed
Lots of the peculiarities of this game echo greatly in Eve Online. It was released in 2003, so despite being a space game, it has very MUD like characteristics... The developers, CCP Games, only overhauled the UI as recently as 2016, and it took until 2019 to put in any semblance of anything telling you to actually play the game. I guess the time had come that CCP had to think about new player retention, these new players not having been raised in the wild west of MUDs and complex role playing games, and were instead used to being spoonfed fun gameplay loops. Somehow it endured. The Tranquility server cluster sees in excess of 10k daily, and over 20k on weekends and such. Great video, and I look forward to more.
@24:30 im dr rockso! the rock and roll froglock!
Great video - thank you!
Super rad
Project Quarm - launching oct 1st, 2023.
its amazing and great for nostalgia and also getting much needed quality of life changes.
@@daveydavedave If this video had been made about Project Quarm, the video would have already been copyrighted, and the player who made the video banned in-game.
@@BoomerElite4u why do you say that?
Well stated my soul friend. By the way, look at Monsters and Memories... made by an old school EQ developer and maybe, just maybe will have some of that magic again...
I genuinely thought it's a video by a huge channel and just saw your sub count/views at 2 minutes
Everyone starts somewhere!
My brain hurts. lol
Fun fact: the mousewheel zoom shouldn't exist on p99. It wasn't added until way later.
I didn't realize this!
you're right, but by that logic, shouldn't we still have our screens eaten by that clunkily beautiful late 90s UI?
@@matc3881 They aren't using a client compatible with that
This is based TYBG
EQ Classic is a Sonora dog. It's both ugly and beautiful, hard to digest and addictive. Say hi to tucson for me
Pretty gas video bro bro
@36:48 the last line of this was heavy.
Casually strums flute thats actually a drum
lol so many people seem to think that Everquest was the first 3d MMORPG, but it wasn't. Meridian 59 was.
i had to correct myself after i recorded that line. meridian rules
@@okaylook940 I never actually played it myself! But if you have a video about it, I'll go check it out. Loved this video actually.
Great job!
p99 is a love and hate relationship for sure. Some of us want it to be everquest like it was back then, for the most part its ppl satisfying their elitist behaviour, steam rolling ppl and gatekeeping content from the others. And I wont start with the "monetary contribution" certain ppl give the GM which let them have a pass on using third party programs. P99 is probably the closest we will ever have to the true experience, but it is heavily corrupted also. Its like a very good and delicious cake, with some moldy spots here and there. There is still some good part, but you still biting into something with mold on it
For all those elitists trying to live out their power fantasy, I’ve never played a game with so many people willing to lend a hand to a random person I’ve never met. The number of items, buffs, ports, and the like I’ve received without ever being asked for a tip or payment is vastly beyond any other game I’ve played
Great video!
What a great presentation with clever and gifted writing. Great job relating how a bunch of triangles translates into real life events/experience. Does the game emulate real life experience, or do we bring the human condition to the game and just play ourselves on some level, vicariously through a character...or both? This playground of triangles certainly reveals the most noble to the darkest attributes one can possess. Does the distance between sheer fantasy and reality amplify any of these possible selves? I include the question because of the mention of "authenticity" near the end, which I find very relevant to the EQ experience. Thanks for the video. Full marks!
Some great writing!
Great video, immediate sub from me. It did bother me that you mentioned Michael Jackson and show a picture of Prince. I played the original eq and remember when they added "Gems", a tetris like mini game that you could play while having downtime. That was the first song that things in eq might not be an optimal game
Did you try Evercraft yet? Its gonna be the next hit. Ive played every MMO you can imagine since Everquest. Evercraft has huge potential given they dont eff it up lol.
9:38 This video is genius.
This game really sucks. I love it.
Have your like, you earned it.
that was Prince, not Michael Jackson
Nice video.
Guess I'll be that guy 😂 that was Prince not Michael Jackson.
@29:21 arthritis not simulated.
Now try Project Quarm, based on The Al Kabor Project client ... ! Free
Why do that to Prince?
That's not a photo of Jackson.
where to get the animated wallpaper?
Wallpaper Engine on Steam
I honestly wish they took the first neverwinter nights game and made it an mmo like everquest. Do you know how amazing that woulda been.
How do i get those classic everquest animated wallpapers !?
Wallpaper Engine on Steam
@@okaylook940 thanks!
Thank you!
31:46 ya that ... and the fact FFXIV has players wearing Irish wool Fisherman sweaters in a medieval fantasy rpg. F that bs
Lol of course you're in Castle
nah thanks though
@@okaylook940 you literally have a castle tag inn one of the bits, but sure thing
@@mordyth timestamp pls
@@okaylook940 nah I'm good. Already watched it once, was pretty good. Will probably watch more in the future.
@@mordyth ty for watching I was freaking out like did I get drunk and join castle
you still playing bro?
not really. just log in to buff unrest sometimes
sixth
This video should be called, "When you have an above average vocabulary but you DRONE ON non stop for 36 plus minutes".....I made it to 6 minutes before I couldn't stand the droning and yes, I understood all the words....
EverQuest is the first, worst mmorpg that every other game aside from a few blindly copied and didn’t try and make anything original. It literally fucked rpgs for the last 30 years
Based.